Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
...ted Nations' 'millennium development goals' at the same time. It also presents an opportunity for the developed world to invest in the African continent, as many promised at the January meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and as promoted by British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the r...Study shows promise in identifying kidney failure
... failure one to three days after surgery. In these same patients, NGAL was easily detectable in urine and blood within two hours of the operation. The NGAL in patients' urine increased by about 15 fold two hours after surgery. NGAL in blood samples increased about six fold two hours after surgery. "Stati...Strategy effective against drug resistant tuberculosis
...ped from 11.1 to 3.5 per 100 000 per year over the same period. The percentage of drug resistant tuberculosis also dropped. At the outset 22% of previously untreated patients with pulmonary TB were carrying drug-resistant strains, and 6.7% were MDR tuberculosis patients. In the final year of the study, on...UMaine study looks at infants and chronic nighttime crying
...ate crib-like bed away from the parents but in the same room. The study's findings suggest a critical factor contributing to night-waking is not as much co-sleeping or separate sleeping arrangements, but rather changes in where the infant sleeps during the night and during naps. "In other words, it is c...Study shows soy is well accepted in school lunches
...s a proxy for acceptance. If students consumed the same amount or more of the test product than the usual ... the soy products versus the meat versions was the same for the chili and spaghetti dishes used in the study. "Equal amounts of these foods were eaten indi...New study in 'Nature' demonstrates protection against cell death during heart attack
...t's when cells die. We hypothesize that if, at the same time you re-establish flow you infuse a cyclophilin D inhibitor, you might profoundly affect the heart or brain and, presumably, protect it." A class of drugs already exists that blocks cyclophilin D. The most well known one is cyclosporine, a drug ...UCSF study offers insight into human circadian rhythms
...ms. As expected, the transgenic mice displayed the same abnormal sleeping pattern seen in the human cases ...ntists have taken note. "We're going to follow the same approach we always have," says Ptacek. "If we find something interesting in any of these domains, we...Satellite survey enhances knowledge of Tuscan landslides
...spot the difference'. Multiple radar images of the same site acquired by spacecraft such as ESA's ERS or Envisat are specially combined to identify tiny changes in the landscape occurring between acquisitions. More than a decade of archived satellite imagery has been used. "The SLAM products are curren...Hausman to give keynote address at 'Breastfeeding, Motherhood and Feminism' symposium
...rovide for a family's health and well being at the same time. A woman's ability and willingness to breastfeed is strongly related to the social and labor structures of which she is a part. If it is not possible to incorporate the practice into her daily schedule, she will probably not do it. Recent nation...HIV testing should be routine part of primary health care for sexually active
...ion drug use, or intercourse with a partner of the same sex. Tests also are offered to patients when clinical findings indicate the possibility of HIV infection or to patients who request testing. "For anybody who is sexually active, this should be a routine part of primary care," says lead author Curt G...Geodon effective in psychiatric emergencies; Sharply reduces time in restraints
... an intramuscular injection be transitioned to the same medication in an oral formulation. The study followed the outcome of 110 patients who were brought to the hospital's Psychiatric Emergency Service suffering from acute agitation who were given Geodon. Of these, 72 were suffering only from psychiatr...UW study shows blacks and Latinos are more satisfied with physicians of the same race
...er and are more satisfied with physicians from the same race or ethnicity, according to a new study publis...s prefer that their personal physician be of their same race or ethnicity. In turn, those patients who have racial preferences for their physicians are more...March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...er and are more satisfied with physicians from the same race or ethnicity, according to a new study. Analy...s prefer that their personal physician is of their same race or ethnicity. In turn, those patients who have racial preferences for their physicians are more...Unexpected benefit seen in treating HER-2 breast cancer with new preoperative drug combo
...acil, epirubicin and cyclophosphamide alone or the same regimen with 24 weekly, simultaneous Herceptin tre...han is usual, and the drugs also were given at the same time - another departure from traditional practice. The goal of the study has been to see whether ta...OHSU scientists test medication to treat involuntary weight loss
... develop and test a medication that would have the same effect. This medication, and others in its class, have excellent oral absorption, which also enhances their appeal as drug candidates. In this research, the scientists gave both normal mice and mice with a cachexia-like syndrome Neurocrine's orally-...Consumers with disabilities empowered by American Disabilities Act
...years before their interviews. Approximately that same number could identify it as the ADA. Those that did name the ADA were more likely to perceive positive changes and improvements over those who could not name it or were unaware of a law being passed. Yet, the respondents' level of life satisfaction...Lack of clinical trial participation may contribute to lower survival rates
...hown vast improvements over the past 25 years, the same has not been shown for patients between 15-45 year..., among whom survival has improved little over the same time period. Explanations for the finding have included differences in physical tolerances to therap...Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
...ernal Medicine, in an accompanying editorial. "The same study also suggested that practice volume, translating into less time available for each patient, was associated with a higher volume of complaints and higher malpractice risk.We must remember that we accepted the duty of caring for patients when we ...Advertising by academic medical centers may risk eroding public trust, says study
...d information, but no one seemed to be turning the same critical eye on ads from academic medical centers," said Dr. Robin Larson, instructor in medicine at DMS and lead author of the study. The study, published in the March 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, examined marketing practices of t...Organizational traits associated with quality patient care are essential to home care nursing
...ynn said, home care and district nurses valued the same core set of organizational traits as hospital-based nurses. "Further research is needed to determine if this set of organizational attributes are not only important to home care and district nurses, but also allow predicting positive nurse and patie...